Why are Bargains Bad?
Gordon Laird, after years as a student and journalist in China, started to see “that this part of the world was becoming a major driver of human history.” Combining his work on energy, climate, and poverty issues with his work in China, Laird began work on The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization. “I was just following the story. It’s a very old-fashioned project in that regard,” he said. “The reporting launched some big questions that led to a larger investigation of how …
